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by sethg 17y ago
It appears, from skimming the source code, that they use "unsafePerformIO", which is Haskell's "I want to trick the compiler into thinking that this imperative code is pure" function. (It's not part of standard Haskell but I think all impl
872.
by sethg 17y ago
Ironically, I suspect that a better example of a problem that's easier to solve with mutation than with a pure functional interface would be graph reduction, which is a technique for evaluating purely functional languages. http://en.wikipe
873.
by sethg 17y ago
The Haskell Data.Array.Diff module provides arrays that use mutation behind the scenes, so that updates are O(1), but provide a pure functional interface. So if "c" is the 256-element array of byte counts, and "i" is the index of the eleme
874.
by sethg 18y ago
sigh I really oughtta learn linear algebra in my Copious Free Time....
875.
by sethg 18y ago
It's too bad that Indian Point was built before that engineering problem was solved. "The discovery of water flowing across the floor of a building at the Indian Point 2 nuclear plant in Buchanan, N.Y., traced to a leak in a buried pipe, is
876.
by sethg 18y ago
Dave Winer had an interesting take on this issue: your blog, he said, is an advertisement for yourself, so that you can more easily get work doing, well, whatever you do. Why on earth would you dilute your own advertisement by sticking on
877.
by sethg 18y ago
Interesting comment quoted here: http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2009/04/28/how-to-be-edgy/ It’s not about whether it’s porn or not porn. Those commenting on people’s supposed hypersensitivity to nudity or bodies are completely missing the p
878.
by sethg 18y ago
"Networking", as generally understood, involves going around and schmoozing lots of people, collecting their business cards, etc. If you're an introvert, like most geeks, this is torture. Instead of building shallow relationships with lot
879.
by sethg 18y ago
If every line gets a sponsor and you still don't have enough money, will you rewrite it in Java?
880.
by sethg 18y ago
i = i + 1 # this line sponsored by Ethel Moskowitz in honor of her grandmother
881.
by sethg 18y ago
Go back to the teachers who inspired you earlier and ask their advice on how to "work within the system" to make high school less of a pointless burden for you. You might be able to get an "independent study" credit to replace some of your
882.
by sethg 18y ago
A friend of mine once remarked that it's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. In a world with almost seven billion people, there are many folks who believe that Darwinian evolution is a fraud, or that 9/11 w
883.
by sethg 18y ago
Is talking about women in technology the problem, or is talking about women in technology without following through and doing something useful the problem?
884.
by sethg 18y ago
AIUI, one reason California is in a constant fiscal crisis is that it takes a supermajority to raise taxes and other constitutional provisions mandate how a certain proportion of the budget should be spent. So it's much harder for Californ
885.
by sethg 18y ago
To receive a brochure describing job opportunities at the NSA, just pick up the phone and call your mother...
886.
by sethg 18y ago
Wouldn't other hardware vendors be more interested in supporting PostgreSQL now? Before the acquisition, if you bought a big HP database server, HP had no reason to care which database software you ran on it. Now, HP would prefer that you
887.
by sethg 18y ago
As someone upthread pointed out, the CEO was free to do just that (or at least, would have become free to do it as soon as the pre-existing contract ran out).
888.
by sethg 18y ago
The workers are "threatening to shut down your entire operation" by refusing to work for you on the terms that you would prefer. That's negotiation, not violence.
889.
by sethg 18y ago
The UAW jobs bank idea was forced by a union not management You misspelled "agreed to". Nobody pointed a gun at a CEO and made him sign the contract.
890.
by sethg 18y ago
Remember that a similar program for auto workers, the UAW's "jobs bank", was held out as an examplar of union featherbedding.
891.
by sethg 18y ago
How much of the cost of a plant in the US is defending against absolutely inevitable litigation, in a process designed to be used by environmentalists against anything they don't like? The Price Anderson Act (and similar later laws) limit
892.
by sethg 18y ago
The problems with nuclear are not so much technical as economic. Moody's Investor Services, hardly an outfit run by hippie freaks, estimates that a new nuclear plant will cost over $5,000 per kilowatt to build--twice as much as solar and f
893.
by sethg 18y ago
That depends. If the building has been so broken-down that it will cost a lot to put it in rentable condition (e.g., people came in and stripped out all the copper wiring while it was foreclosed and abandoned) or if there simply isn't much
894.
by sethg 18y ago
<cynicism> Maybe it's because they've spent time in the US, and absorbed the American idea that You Can Have It All, that some Indian men think it's perfectly reasonable to ask for a wife who is "smart, fluent in English" (i.e., h
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by sethg 18y ago
iPhone. D'oh!
896.
Making the HTML5 <time> element safe for historians(quirksmode.org)
19 points by sethg 18y ago|4 comments
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by sethg 18y ago
The thing that surprises me about the graph is that MacOS jobs pay significantly more than either Linux or Windows; the advantage of Linux itself over Windows is so small that it might be a statistical fluke. Maybe anyone who can afford t
898.
by sethg 18y ago
Coincidentally, the Boston Globe Magazine 's "Coupling" feature just ran an essay by an Indian attorney living in DC, who has been ashamed to admit that her parents bought a newspaper ad and arranged an introduction to the man whom she wil
899.
by sethg 18y ago
To the best of my knowledge, when a copyrighted work is made available for free over the Internet, it's available for free to everyone . Nobody has to prove that they are so destitute that they could not possibly afford to pay even one ce
900.
by sethg 18y ago
(Disclaimer: I am not a libertarian or an Objectivist.) IMHO one of the characteristics of owning something is that you have the right to control how it's used without having to justify that decision to anyone else . If you camp out in

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